17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2020 “Do you UNDERSTAND all these things? They answered, yes!” INTRO: UNDERSTANDING; the greatest gift from God! ———————————————————————————— In grade school, high school, and college, I struggled with MATH. I just couldn’t get it, nor understood it at all. I memorized numbers, fractions, but, not much else. In theology […]

16TH Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2020 Intro: I know many clever and good teachers, but, one in particular has a unique action in her classroom. Every Friday afternoon this teacher asks her fifth grade class to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children they would like to […]

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2020 (A) INTRO: Our dad was always referred to as: The great TRANSFORMER! He could TAKE STUFF and he would completely transform the stuff into something new! I remember when we got to the BIG HOUSE; we had no dining room set!! Well my dad’s mom (Grandma Singler) decided to […]

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2020 INTRO: I had a summer job while in the seminary and my boss always made his presence known. He was an exacting kind of boss, and not in the good way, employees were a bit frightened by him when he came to observe or comment on our work! […]

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) INTRO: ASK: Are you afraid of anything??? THE PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS Our parents painted our young boy’s room “purple” and my mean sister kept creeping me out that it would now bring the purple people eaters to my room at night when we were sleeping…aghhhh! I was sooooo afraid […]

Corpus Christi 2020 (A) INTRO: Do you all remember TRIP-TIK’S from TRIPLE AAA? They charted the course for your “journey”… pretty easy to follow as you drove along! Well, it is one thing to make a journey when you know where you are going, but, it is quite another thing to make a journey when […]

Trinity Sunday 2020 INTRO: My Father was called: DAD Sometimes: DADDY Or POPS My mom of course called him JOHN And He called my mom: PEACH Everybody’s got a name ……. A “given” name or a nick-name! The names of GOD Is what we celebrate today! God the Father, God the Son and God the […]

Pentecost Sunday ABC 2020 INTRO: Tell story of the smashed in JAGUAR CAR DOOR. A young executive was tooling down a street a bit too fast in his new shiny, sporty JAGUAR, but, when he got to an area where there were a number of parked cars he slowed down watching for kids darting out […]

Ascension Sunday 2020 INTRO: Some of you have heard this story, but a couple of years ago….on a Mother’s Day….I received a “Mother’s Day” card!!!!!!!!!!! It was from my older sister…who was organizing and cleaning out some “MEMORABILIA” of my mom’s after she had died. What she found were several pictures of me and mom […]

Sixth Sunday of Easter (A) 2020 INTRO: So, let me ask you at home ……. What is the ONE most important rule in your home, even if you live alone? For the Singler kids it was: TO MAKE UP OUR BEDS BEFORE WE WENT OFF TO SCHOOL. LOL….. Till this very day, I STILL DO […]